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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 17, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I purchased a Master Workman gasoline 
engine from the Temple Pump Co., Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., in May, 1903. I did not get a 
half day’s work'out of it until October, 
1904. and in that lime I had five different 
experts on it. It beat them all except one, 
and he told me to get rid of it and buy 
another make. Finally I gave it away and 
bought a live horse-power engine of another 
make. It is a very good one. It g6es 
when I start it and runs until I stop it. I 
don’t think I ever stopped the Master 
Workman, a dozen times in the three years 
I had it; but I have turned the crank 
enough in efforts to start it to create en¬ 
ergy to carry me around the world 25 
times. The best job of work I did with 
it was to saw 1G cords of wood twice in 
two; I used 13 gallons of gasoline. With 
my new engine I have sawed in the same 
place 20 cords of four-foot wood, twice in 
two. with 4% gallons of gasoline—quite 
a difference! At the time I supposed I 
was the only one who got bit, but I see by 
The R. N.-Y. that I am not alone. If I 
had been a man of means I would have 
tried hard to see how much compassion the 
Temple I’ump Company had: but being a 
poor man, I kept quiet, and let my friends 
have the laugh on me. e. b. r. 
Vermont. 
It is only fair to say that we have 
heard from farmers who say they have 
used the “Master 'Workman” engine, 
and are satisfied with it. We have 
never disputed that some of these en¬ 
gines work all right, though it is quite 
generally said that they are badly con¬ 
structed as to workmanship, and that 
they require large quantities of gaso¬ 
line. But our point from the first is 
that the Temple Pump Co. guarantee 
these engines. They say you take no 
chance in sending them money in ad¬ 
vance; that they stand by it in¬ 
definitely, and that if it does not do 
as promised, you return it and get your 
money returned less freight one way. 
That is a tempting proposition, but we 
have reported the experience of differ¬ 
ent farmers week after week, who 
could not make them work, and could 
not get their money back. We simply 
want them to live up to the promises 
which induced these farmers to send 
them their orders and their money. 
II. Stciscl, commission merchant, 317-19 
Greenwich street, New York. 
Present rating would not in our judg¬ 
ment justify shipments on account. 
For Sale:—A contract for 10 shares 
of stock in the Monaton Realty Invest¬ 
ing Corporation, Times Building, New 
York City on which $100 has been paid. 
No reasonable offer refused. Address 
J. IT. W., care The R. N.-Y. 
I shipped three bushels of strawberries 
to T. S. White, Columbus, O., on June 20, 
1906. He first denied that lie got them, 
but when I showed him the express re¬ 
ceipt, he promised to pay, but never did. 
Can you collect it? w. j. a. 
Ohio. 
We do not know whether we can get 
it or not. We have been trying with¬ 
out success so far. We have placed it 
with our attorney' for collection, but in 
any' event the inducements for other 
growers to ship Mr. White are not 
overpowering. 
A neighbor’s son, Whose health demands 
light labor, has an offer from the Ontario 
Correspondence School of Veterinary Sci¬ 
ence. London, Canada, to sell books at .$3 
each, and memberships. When he has sold 
these books and memberships they are to 
start a branch office here with him as 
head of the office. Do you know this firm ? 
Are they all right, or are they as we sup¬ 
pose—swindlers? They have a branch office 
at Detroit, Mich. G. k. 
Illinois. 
Yes, we know them. They have 
worked this game for years. Of course, 
the branch office proposition is a fake. 
They make it as an inducement to get 
the boys to sell the books. Their cor¬ 
respondence course is a dangerous thing 
at best. Their so-called certificates have 
no standing in any of the States, and 
would not entitle anyone to practice 
veterinary medicine. 
May 31, 1907, we gave H. W. Elder & 
Co., Beebe Plain, Vt„ or rather their trav¬ 
eling man, an order for shrubs. They prom¬ 
ised to replace anything that did not live. 
Of the order a lot of Double White Althaea 
and four Phlox showed no sign of life. We 
have written them several times, but they 
have neither replaced nor replied to our 
letter. f. e. b. 
Massachusetts. 
We received the above complaint in 
December, 1908. We wrote the com¬ 
pany and received the following reply: 
Yours of 13th to hand; note contents. 
In regard to F. E. B., of Massachusetts, 
beg to say that we sent his letter to agent, 
L. M. White, of Boston, who gets his stock 
of us and uses our blank orders, and not 
hearing anything from White, supposed he 
had arranged matters with F. E. B. How¬ 
ever, if you will write him to send us a list 
of stock that did not grow we will see that 
he gets it in Spring, and charge same to 
White, as we do not guarantee stock to 
anyone, and are not responsible for any 
conditions Mr. White might make to in¬ 
fluence a sale. h. w. ei.der & co. 
We then requested. F. E. B. to 
send the list, which he did, and received 
their acknowledgment, but he has never 
received the plants, and they do not 
respond to our requests for explanation. 
The transaction is now two y'ears old, 
and from this experience, as well as 
from their own letter, growers need 
not expect any redress for plants re¬ 
ceived from them which fail to grow, 
no matter what promises are made by 
their agents. 
What do you know about the Imperial 
Development Co.. Vineland. N. J., and 25 
Liberty street. New York? Are they re¬ 
liable and apt io do the right thing by 
their people? I agreed to purchase one 
of their advertising lots located at Villa 
Park. West Hampton, Long Island: was to 
gel it for the cosl of making deed and 
other expense amounting to $18.60. They 
were to use my name as reference to se¬ 
cure- other business. T would .thank you 
for prompt reply, as I have paid but $5 at 
yet, but the balance will be sent to the 
bank for collection this week, and if no 
good will drop at that, but if your answer 
is favorable will go ahead. friend. 
Pennsylvania. 
We asked the company for a de¬ 
scription and map of this land, but they 
have not sent it. Our information is 
that it lies about a half mile west of 
the depot. The ocean is to the east of 
the depot. It is all under scrub growth. 
Our correspondent concludes his report 
with the following paragraph: “All it 
is worth is on paper to gull the poor 
New Yorker!” Of course, the above 
scheme is a fake; $18.60’•would be a 
good price for several acres of it, and 
there would probably be 12 to 15 of the 
lots on a single acre as they would 
measure it out. We advise our friend 
to drop his “five” and keep out of such 
fake schemes in the future. 
Would you consider it a safe investment 
to buy a 10 or 40-acre farm in Volusia 
County, Florida, from E. C. Howe, 712 Hart¬ 
ford Building, Chicago, Ill. ? He has a per¬ 
sonal indorsement by the publisher of 
“Woman’s World.” c. l. w. 
New York. 
With all respect to the “Woman’s 
World,” we cannot indorse the invest¬ 
ment. There is* any amount of land 
in that section of Florida that can be 
bought for the taxes, probably for 50 
to 60 cents an acre. Of course there 
is some fertile land in the State, and 
you would have to pay a fair price to 
get it, but that is not the kind of land 
that you usually get from land pro¬ 
moters’. I know of one fairly fertile 
farm of 30 acres nicely situated on the 
banks of Crescent Lake, just north of 
Volusia county, that can be bought for 
$5 an acre; and I doubt if the owner 
would refuse $3 per acre for it. We 
do not know what Mr. Howe’s farm 
would cost you, but as a general rule 
northern farmers would better leave 
Florida farms alone as an investment. 
I have read the “Publisher's Desk” de¬ 
partment in your June 26th issue with a 
good deal of interest. I was going to say 
pleasure, but really it gives me pain—not 
to have you publish it. but that men whom 
we would like to think highly of resort 
to such tricks to get small sums out of 
the unwary, and bleed the very people 
whose interests they are supposed to serve. 
Surely there must be enough honest pub¬ 
lishers to kill this sort of thing if they 
would all take the stand that you have. 
The above, in reference to investments 
in building certificates, stocks, and de¬ 
bentures put out by publishing com¬ 
panies to their subscribers, is from a 
business man who has made a life study 
of the publishing business, and whose 
work and business is a benefit and an 
edification to everyone who comes in 
contact with him. The reform move¬ 
ment to which he invites the attention 
of honest publishers is, however, a deli¬ 
cate, not to say difficult, one for them 
to approach. His own feeling suggests 
one phase of the difficulty. We prefer 
to think highly pf those engaged in a 
line of business similar to our own. 
This is a social reason. From a sense 
of pride, or possibly of selfishness, men 
dislike to reflect on a general line of 
business of which they .themselves are a 
factor. This hesitation is probably also 
influenced by business considerations. 
Then again, there are some who would 
attribute the attempt at correction, and 
the necessary exposure of prevailing 
methods, as inspired by a sense of 
rivalry; and men hesitate to invite any 
such judgment on themselves. Nor can 
we blame them. We confess that we 
hesitated for full}' two years, answer¬ 
ing hundreds of questions in the mean¬ 
time by mail privately. It was not until 
the volume of inquiry had become so 
large and the interests of our subscrib¬ 
ers so paramount, that we overruled a 
personal preference and concluded to 
publish the facts about this as we do in 
other cases. There is an apology for 
other honest publishers in that they do 
not discuss these matters generally. We 
do, and we necessarily faced a dis¬ 
agreeable task in a stern demand of 
duty to those who look to us for fair 
and impartial information on such sub¬ 
jects. J. J. D. 
AN ABNORMAL EGG. 
What ailed the hen that laid this soft- 
shelled egg, with its attachment? She 
seemed dumpy and stopped laying. 
Such eggs as in the drawing below, 
are occasionally laid, but we have no 
positive knowledge of the cause. It 
may be put in the same class of natu¬ 
ral peculiarities as double-yolked eggs, 
soft-shelled eggs, etc. The hen’s being 
dumpy would be more likely to be the 
cause, rather than the effect of laying 
this peculiar egg. Over-fat hens are 
likely to lay soft-shelled eggs. The 
best treatment is preventive. Keep 
them in good condition, allow them 
plenty of grit and shell and plenty of 
green food, with a grass run, if possi¬ 
ble. C: F. BOEHLER. 
Experience with Cattle Grub. 
On page 562 the cattle grub is discussed. 
After reading the article I am induced to 
volunteer a bit of information, and ask a 
question or two. At the first appearance 
of grubs on the backs of cattle, say the 
last of February or first of March, as we 
have noticed it, an application of brine or 
perhaps two applications, say a week 
apart, will be destructive to the grubs if 
applied on the back of the animal infested. 
Or we have just merely salted our cattle 
on their backs a few times during Feb¬ 
ruary and March with as good a result. 
The brine or salt does not hurt the ani¬ 
mal or hide a particle; the cattle rather 
like it, and it is an easy way to destroy 
grubs. One or two “campaigns” of this 
character, if generally practiced, ought to 
rid the country of the cattle grubs. We 
have never found grubs on yearlings or 
our herd bull. Why is it? Every Spring 
prior to that of 1909 our cows have been 
infested with grubs, and we always fed 
grain during the Winter along with hay 
and fodder. But during the Winter of 
1909 we fed no grain at all; only good 
clover and Timothy hay with grass when¬ 
ever the ground was bare enough for the 
cattle to get it, and not a sign of grubs 
appeared on our cattle this Spring; not 
one could be found. The cattle went 
through in good condition, and to-day, May 
31, one could not tell but what these 
Polled Durhams had been grain fed all 
Winter. Columbia farm. 
Xauvoo, Ill. 
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We offer a limited number of Grand Yearling Hens, 
selected for size.shape and great laying qualities, at Two 
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SUNNY SLOPE FARM, Bound Brook, New Jersey 
VAN ALSTYNE’S R. I. REDS-Our past season’s breeding 
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Edw. Van Alstynk & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
W. P. ROCKS Bred for Beauty and Utility, 
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Death to Heaves Guaranteed 
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NEWTON’S 
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$1.00 per can at dealers, 
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Horse Troubles, , 
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Death tho Stomach 
Worms Guaranteed 
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SENT FREE “HOWTO KEEP AWAY 
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Carbollneum Wood Preserving Co. 
351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds, LTtesMnd&m.: 
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S, C. W. LEGHORNS 
vigor ami quality 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to the production 
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Mt. Pleasant Farm, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md. 
U/UITE I PfUlflRWQ We are breeders of Single 
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andottes: also Imperial 
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Send for circular. Correspondence invited. 
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New Rochelle, N. Y. 
